Tibet Center

Geshe Lobsang Monlam will discuss the crucial role technology plays in preserving Tibetan language, and will present new developments in his Tibetan programs, applications, and fonts. Geshe Monlam was born in Amdo Ngawa, Tibet. In 1993 he began 17 years of study at Sera Mey College in Karnataka, India. Currently he is the director of Tibetan IT Research […]

A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka: Maitrīpa's Collection of Works on Non-conceptual Realization The Tibet Center is pleased to welcome as our first speaker of 2017 Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes, head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. Professor Mathes will present findings from his recent research on the […]

Other People’s Philology: Uses of Sanskrit in Tibet and China, 15th-18th c. Join us for a talk by Matthew Kapstein, Director of Tibetan Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Chicago. Lecture Abstract: The long Tibetan preoccupation with the translation of the Buddhist literature of […]

Himalayan Syncretism and the Emergence of Padmasambhava as Rdo rje gro lod Padmasambhava, the renowned eighth-century tantrika credited with establishing Buddhism in Tibet, is scarcely noted among imperial-era sources, and yet he becomes the protagonist of a vibrant biographical tradition several centuries thereafter. One mode of defining him and his activities was through the introduction […]